My hobby is to do the same, except with Poker. And then GTFO before they realize how much money they lost. J/k. I'm actually bad at poker. Do you want to play a game? I'm not allowed at my parent's company christmas parties any more. EDIT: My KSP hobby is to make troll designs that are just good en...

So I'm addicted to XCOM 2. Everything is just... tighter. Fixed a lot of the problems and added more of the good stuff. I made a plaid sweater-wearing balding sniper with glasses and a death metal ranger. Because I could. I like how they made Advent the cannon fodder and made all the alien species i...

I just finished Seveneves . The first two parts were really good, a little more generous with the fiction than The Martian was but I thought the third part should have been a standalone story or a sequel. It was very jarring for me to go through 500 pages with a set of characters and then suddenly j...

I thought it was a pretty ok movie. We were a bit confused about: Why the omega only reset when an alpha was killed - it couldn't make sure that an alpha killed itself as soon as a plane turned up in Paris? At first we thought it was because they weren't intelligent so it was just a random ...

Not really a spoiler, but just in case. Is basic background and characterization spoiler? On Stannis; Eh, Stannis is just as power-hungry as the rest, even if he won't admit as much. He betrayed the Seven for the power of The Lord of Light. And if he didn't want to be king, all he had to do...

I've not seen other Tom Cruise flicks, so I'm surprised at the vitriol against him and Scientology. I actually like Tom Cruise. I mostly made a joke because it was funny and I think that Hollywood makes too much of a big deal about him and he tends to take himself too seriously. This movie was a we...

Show/Book spoiler: I didn't mind the Brienne/Hound encounter. The fight was well choreographed (though I have to object to shakey cam), and I like that the show is milking Arya for dialogue with main characters she didn't particularly have an opportunity to speak with in the books. T...

I think they cut her teleporting altogether. Partial object teleportation means she could have just broken the Sentinels apart VERY fast regardless of what they were made of, plus group teleport offers the evacuation method as you said. And portal effects are cooler eye candy.

Someone asked about Blink's limitations, and I looked them up earlier. She can teleport, partial object teleport, group teleport, and generate portals up to 100 miles. Line of sight isn't a problem. Couldn't find anything about a maximum number of concurrent portals.

Arya's cynical laugh was perfect . There's something about the Mountain that doesn't fit what I imagined from the book. Mostly I imagined a gargantuan suit of armor without any particular humanity to it walking around and being a massacre in a can. For all the pointless killing and such he's done, I...

Or just teleport the sentinals. Teleport them into the bottom of the Mariana's Trench. Teleport them into the earth's crust. Teleport them into space. FWIW, In one of the sentinel battles, a Sentinel stabs Blink(?) through one of the portals, and gets its arm cut off as it closes. Given tha...

Something else that hit me last night: We never really find out much about Trask's motivations - he had so much passion for wanting to kill mutants but you just get a lot of exposition on why he thinks it's a good idea, but you don't really get a feel for why he's so hell bent on it...

Yeah, we were all confused about Kitty having time travel powers too. Quicksilver was awesome, and the powers were all pretty awesome, but over all the plot was a bit meh. I enjoyed watching the movie though - it was a lot of fun, but it did kind of feel a bit aimless. I was expecting Magneto to sh...

Yeah. Quicksilver stole the show with his fight scene. When they showed him watching the TV during the climax, I was expecting him to run over and help out. But yeah, speedsters are my favorite. I noticed that I for some reason, something about the future aesthetic just... bugs me. I sort of wish m...

From the last episode, I really liked: The scene with Tyrion and Bronn. I couldn't help noticing that the dialogue was nearly word-for-word from the same scene in the books. I wish they did that more often, because I really like GRRM's dialogue writing. Book stuff... Kinda sorta. I liked th...

I heard lots of talk about this one. Only recently watched it. I thought it was stellar. I like some of the subtle details. When dictating to computers, people actually use a different tone of voice and don't say "umm", as the movie progresses everyone starts walking alone and the number o...

Ramsay Rambo scene was awful. The more I think about it the less I like it. Yara was willing to go after her brother in the Dreadfort (current capital of the North) after he proved himself a nitwit, gave TWO rousing speeches about how nothing on the face of the earth would keep her from her...

I completely agree. I loved SR2, was slightly disappointed by SR3, but SR4 is fucking *wonderful*. Just... just holy crap it's so good. By the way, when you do the little solo mission with Pierce, absolutely stay in the car until you are *completely* sure the dialog has ended. (It's not tricky or a...

I might be mistaken. I was under the impression that Head mounted displays had problems with eye strain relating to focus, as you focus on infinity, but the actual display is much closer and the illusion isn't complete enough to fool your brain completely. I've tried to dig something up though and h...

I'm somewhat surprised this hasn't made it here, but internet-famous hardware hacker Jeri Ellsworth recently launched (and succeeded) with a Kickstarter for a new Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality product that holds particular potential for the tabletop crowd, CastAR. She accidentally came upon the ...

Hey, so my brother-in-law came to me with an interesting problem. He put his laptop into a saddlebag on his motorcycle with a can of laquer. The can opened, and soaked the laptop through. Aside from the display having a very interesting stain, the thing runs perfect. Didn't even jam a fan or cause w...

Hey there. I've been putting ogether a batch script at work to create all the daily files. Part of the format of the name is the date (dd MMM yy), except the 3 character month must be in all capitals. When I set the short date format to this, it gives me Jan, not JAN like I need. Is there a way to s...

I agree and disagree with you, Addams. It is a shame the young man died. It is impossible to make a judgment from the video we see. It is compelling evidence that the shootings were justified, but I dont think if I were a juror it would be sufficient to charge anyone. We would have a better idea of ...

I don't see this being used to Land airplanes. It requires a pretty good connection, and we could just land it with UAV controls if we had that. what excites me is that if they are envisioning that precise level of control, it could be used to train "muscle memory", the exceedingly difficu...

yeah, I'm talking about the past. I am not presently surprised that there is no discourse about Chelsea's transition, as there obviously is discourse. Before she announced this though there was little use of it as a means to discredit her. While encouraging, it was strange.

The movie plays with color a lot for symbology. I don't know if it's related or not. Maybe white suits when Jaegars were fresh and pilots were famous, black when it's the an underground movement fighting it's final battle or a little girl loses her parents. A few things I have read online su...

It wasn't widely covered, to be sure. Which surprises me. I thought it had been until this event happenned and everyone was surprised. I have been following the Manning stuff closer than most I suppose, but wouldn't say I obsessed over it or anything. I would have thought that there were more people...

I'm annoyed by that article posted above which implies this transgender announcement is a stunt. And at news networks that are pretending like this is a new/recent development, so that people read into it like it's a publicity stunt. It has been a long, long time (in internet years) since the Lamo I...

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't think Icanus posted that in the context of rape threats. I read it more of a "she condemns tropes against women as dangerous but 'kinda' likes a fiction where she murders a person who exists in real life. " Talking about the the cont...